Bottle-stopper



(No Model.)

J.B.NBUBND0RFF.

y BOTTLE isToPPER. No. 598,952.

Patentedjfeb. 15, 1898.

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JOHN B. NEUENDORFF, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. y

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,952, dated February15, 1898.v

Application filed September 20, 1897. Serial No. 652,293. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN B. NEUENDORFF, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexarand State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Bottle-Stopper, of which the following is aspeciiication.

The invention relates to improvements in bottle-Stoppers.

1o The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofbottle-Stoppers and to enable a metallic sealing-cap to be readilyremoved from the neck of a bottle without the use of an instrument.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and point-ed out in the claims hereto appended.

zo In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of abottle provided with a stopper constructed in accordancevwit-h thisinvention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same. Fig. 3 is adetail view of the z5 device prior to its application to a bottle.`

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the sealing-cap isconstructed. Fig. 5 is a reverse plan view of the sealing-cap, theextracting-string being removed.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

l designates a sealing-cap constructed of metal and provided with alocking-flange 2,

3 5 which engages an annular shoulder 3 of a bottle l and which iscrimped or bent into locking contact with the same. The metallicsealing-cap contains a sealing-disk 5, of cork or any other suitablematerial. The crimping or bending of lthe locking-flange is elfectedwhile the sealing-disk is under pressure, and

heretofore an instrument and the exertion ofl considerable force werenecessary in order to remove the stopper from the bottle.

In order to enable the stopper to be readily removed from the bottlewithout employing an instrument, the cap is provided at one sidev withan integral strip or tongue 6 and has.

a short distance of the flange at the opposite side of the cap. Thelocking-flange is provided, between the grooves or partial cuts 7 55 andthe strip or tongue 6, with slots. 8, which facilitate the crimping ofthe flange at the strip or tongue and which terminate short of theperiphery of the said ilange. The blank from which the cap isconstructed is illus- 6o trated in Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings,and the small quantity of material at the outer or lower terminals ofthe slots connecting the strip or tongue with the adjacent i portions ofthe locking-flange is easily broken, andthe grooves or partial cutsextending fromV the inner or upper terminals of the slots permit thetongue and the metal between themJ" to be readily torn off. The stopperis thus' readily removed from the neck of the bottle- 7o withoutemploying a key or other form of instrument. The partial cut or groove 7may be extended entirely across the top of the cap instead ofterminating a short distance from one side, and the depending strip ortongue 6 may be duplicated to provide a pair of handles, as illustratedin dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The strip or tongue is provided between its ends with reversely-arrangedtriangular open- 8o ings 9, formed by ycutting the metal at two sides,and the partially-severed tongues or spurs are bent inward toward eachother against the inner face of the tongue or strip to avoid cutting anextracting wire or string 10, which affords a convenient grip in tearingoft the tongue or strip. The wire, cord, or string is doubled to form aloop,and the doubled or looped portion is passed through the openings 9and receives the body portion, as 9o illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, whereby the cord or string is readily fastened to the strip ortongue. Instead of making the openings triangular, as above described,they may be constructed circular or any other desired shape; but thetriangular form is preferable when a cord is employed.

The invention has theV following advantages: V

The metallic sealing-cap is capable of seroo curely retaining thesealing-disk on the upper edges of the neck of the bottle, and it isadapted to be readily removed 4without the use of a key or otherinstrument.,

The slots adjacent to the strip or tongue facilitate the crimping of theiiange at that point, and the metal at the outer or lower terminals ofthe slots is readily broken when it is desired to tear the strip ortongue from the cap for removing the latter.

The grooves and slots do not impair the efficiency of the cap inretaining the sealingdisk on the bottle.

Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit or sac- 1, ricing anyof the advantages of this invenvided at one side thereof with anintegral strip `or tongue, said cap being provided at its top withgrooves or partial cuts disposed in alinement with the side edges of thestrip or tongue, the locking-flange being slotted between the latter andthe grooves or cuts, and a sealing-disk arranged within the cap,substantially as described.

3. A bottle-stopper comprising a metallic sealing-cap having a crimpedor bent lockingiiange, and provided at one side with a strip or tongueand being weakened opposite the same, said tongue or strip beingprovided with opposite openings and having the portions separatedthrough the formation of the openings bent toward each other, andanextracting-string looped through the openings,

substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. NEUENDORFF.

Vitnesses:

S. A. LEAL, H. PoBUKoWsKI.

